4 MARCH 1871, page 3

Lord Dufferin Made An Amusing Little Speech On Monday. Sir

IL Peel recently attacked the Duchy of Lancaster, so the Chan- cellor defended its management, which he says is very good, though he only proved his case by showing that it was......

The Second Reading Of The Dissenters' Burials' Bill Was...

on Monday by a majority of 62 (211-149). The Times proposes that only distinctively Christian services shall be allowed in the -churchyards of our national Churches. Why ? Are......

There Was A Grand Fight In The House Of Commons

on Tuesday -between the economists and the agriculturists. Sir Massey Lopes made his annual speech, averring that land ought not to bear all the rates ; and Mr. Goschen answered......

Mrs. Torpey, The Person Accused Of Assisting Her Husband To

rob Mesars.Ryder's assistant of £2,500 in diamonds, has been acquitted. 'The Recorder laid it down that if the wife acted under the coercion of her husband, she was innocent ;......

"whiteley V. Cleveland" Is A Case Which Should Be A

warning to fathers. Mr. Cleveland is a clergyman near Barnard Castle, Durham, with a living worth £700 a year, and with ten children, who had allowed his daughter, Miss......

One Of Mr. Gladstone's Very Best Acts Was The Appointment

of Mr. Bryce to the Professorship of Civil Law at Oxford. We -already witness the effects of appointing a young and singularly able lawyer to this important post. Mr. Bryce's......

A Remark Contained In These Columns Last Week Upon The

Voysey Judgment has been misinterpreted to mean that we supposed it to be the duty of Ecclesiastical judges in construing the Articles of the Church to be swayed and biassed by......

Consols Were On Friday 91i To 94.

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The Debate Of Friday Se'nnight On Indian Finance Was A

dull one, carried on by a House which never exceeded twenty-five members, and was latterly reduced to twelve. Mr. Grant Duff, though he always forgets when making statistical......

Mr. Frank Noel's Father Has Published (with Messrs....

Norgate) his son's letters to himself concerning the proceedings in relation to the Marathon captives and their murder, and the subsequent attempts to fasten a charge upon him......